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I SIPHON FOR ICE BOXES AND REPRIGERATORS. N0. 322,992. Patented July 28,1885.

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SAMUEL A. SUYDAM,

NIT-ED STATES ATENT FFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,992, dated July 28,1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. SUYDAM, acitizen of the United States, residing at 550 Hudson street, in thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulSiphon for Ice-Boxes and Refrigerators, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in detachable siphons; and theobject of my improvement is to provide a siphon that shall cause thesediment and dirt to settle without choking either the siphon or thepipes, and that shall be easily removable to clean it out, as occasionmay require, and to enable the pipes to be cleaned out. I attain theseobjects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure l is a view of an ice-box with my improved siphon in place.Fig. 2 is a see tional View of the siphon removed from the ice-box andthe pipes, and Fig. 3 is amoditied form of the siphon.

Similarletters refer to similar parts th rou ghout the several views.

A is a pipe passing from the ice-chamberB to the interior of theice-box, and to which the siphon is attached, and -O is a pipe leadingfrom the siphon to the pan D below; and it is obvious that when thesiphon is removed both A and 0 may be more readily clean-ed than wouldbe the caseif there were one continuous pipe passing from theice-chamber to the bottom of the ice-box, the siphon being placed underthe bottom of the box, as is commonly the case. I

The siphon consists of the legs E and F,with the crosspiece G betweenthem.

The opening between E and G is not equal to the full cross-sectionalarea of G, as is commonly the case, but is at the lower end only, beingshown at e. Similarly, the opening between F is not equal to the fullarea of either F or G, because F projects on one side unto G, as shownat f. Furthermore, the leg E passes down below its junction with G,leaving a certain length of pipe in which the sediment and dust mayaccumulate and be subsequently extracted by removing the cork H.Vhatever sediment may, however, find its way into the branch G will beinduced to settle by the projection f, which will arrest the flow ofwater through the lower half'ol G, and this sediment will have atendency to slide down the branch G and into the leg E. y

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the opening between E and G is atthe top of their point of junction, and it is obvious that the dirt andsediment could accumulate up to the combination with the opening 6 andthe pro- 7o jection f, the siphon being detachable, to enable it to becleaned and to facilitate the cleaning of the pipes in the icebox,substantially as set forth.

SAMUEL A. SUYDAM. Witnesses:

J OSHUA Rosn. F. H. CARLOUGH.

